Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-05-07
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SATURDAY. MAY, g. 1887.


 in Phenix next Monday night.
 The Grand Lodge of Knights ot Py- thiss of Arizona will meet in Prescott ou Wednesday, May 25th.
 The Prescott liquor dealers have rsls- ed e25O to contest the license law.
 Mountain lions are killing stock on the Verde, Ysyspsi county.
 4 postoffice has been established st Whipple Barracks, with 4. G. Oliver for postmaster.
 The Phenix gold "discoverY" proves to be only pyrites of rascslIty, Some joker sslted the sand.
 Kingrnan is ove-run with tramps and wants 10 know how 10 e1termlnate them,
 Dr. A. P, Prick, U. s. A. formerly at Camp Thomas, is now at Fort Grant,
 The town of Flagstaff contains eight saloons and boom. It also has other clements of thrift.
 Dennis McCsrty, ssssyer of the T. M, < M. company. is dangerously ill at HuRchuca,
 Two regiments Of the National Guard of Arizons will be formed under the new law. the northern section to have the senior regiment
 Jim Paxton, known in Mohsye county as Blind Jir8. was shot through the head in Wichita, Kansas, recently. He will likely die.
 Mir. M. P. Freeman has resigned his position Tn the post office and next week be will become cashier in Mir, D. Hen derson's bank.
 Mir. J. Nj. Creighton. the Phenix arch itect, IS in the city and has submitted plans to the board of regents for the Territorial University.
 Louis Courson, @ section hand on the A. & \. N. Railroad, had foot crushed by the cars st Guthrie. last week, ren- dering Rmputation necessary.
 D. \, Wolf. rosdmRster on the A. | F. died st the Needles on Monday of last week, of heBrt disease,
 Apache stock raisers are petitioning their board of supervisors to equsliZe the assessment of stock at Sl0 per head.
 Orange trains over the Atlantic &
 
 the passenger trains, averaging thirty five miles aR hour.
 About seven carloads of ore are stacked up at the Prescott sRmpling works, and about ten tons per dsy are arriving. The works will start up in few days.
 A new Odd Fellows lodge was insti- tuted in the town of KingmRn, Mohave county. on Tuesday night, by District Deputy Grand Master Wm. Wilkerson, of Prescott.
 Mir. Douglass Snyder will take & Ieisurely trip out by way of the Silver Bell to the Nekol, thence northwsrd about the Owl Heads and Riverside be- fore returning home.
 Captain Robert D'Yhr. commander of the Mohgve Rifies, N. G. A., died in Cal itoruis on April 1lth. He was Prus- sian by birth, 1T years of age.
 W, D Leonard, post trader at Fort Ningate, died last Friday. He WAS well known throughout Arizona and New Mexico.
 J. Fl. Behsn IS recovering from his serious illness in Phenix, His oom- plsint was abcess of the liver, upon which R successful operation has been performed.
 The Clarion tells a very large and elegant snake story in its marine intel ligence which does credit to the boss copper camp in the Territory.
 4 telegram from NOgales this morn ing states that the smallpox has broken out again 10 that place, and that two pBupers were found walking along the streets with the disease.
 None of the gang of Mexican robbers have yet succeeded in getting the S5000 bonds and they will probably summer m jail. Their tact for procuring money seems to be excelled only by their ability to spend 1t.
 Messrs, Wm. L. Guild and G. H. Oury have formed 8 partnership ss real es- tate agents in Florence. The firm is 6 solld one and ought to do fine busi- ness. now that Florence properties have taken an active and upward turn.
 Mir. \. T. Jones, the proprietor of the International hotel at Nogsles, has been paying Tucson visit. He antici- pRtes a bright future for Nogsles, which Is the healthiest town in either Arizona or Sonora.
 NIT. Gray, of the Southern Pacific, hs notifi ed Messrs. l.. Zeckendorf < Co that its jobbers' freight tariff hss been resumed and that local rates will be the same as before the interstate law took effect.
 If the person who sends & contribution through the postoffioe, postage not paid, signed "A Citizen," will sign hIs own name to the article 1t may receive some consideration. Anonymous contribu- tions are never published.
 hr. M. ?. Freeman has resigned his position in the money order department o! the possotfice, and Mr. W. A. NcDer- mott succeeds him. NIT. l.. W, Corbett has taken the position of general deliv- cry clerk.
 John Wlllett, of Clifton, who was re- ported killed by Apaches about two years ago, has returned from long prospecting trip through the Sierra Madres, He says Arizona Is good enough for him hereafter.
 The following are the losses of Wells, Fargo k Co.'S Express, by Wednesday nights robbery: Coin, S597.65, Cur rency, Sl0l500; Mexican Silver Dollars, flsDuN-lN- Oulu Du5tb ~AAosoOY AdhiuE total of S3,227.65.
 The initial number of the Nogsles Record has been received. 1t IS large, seven column weekly, full of lively and interesting news, just such as Mir. 4. '. Crawford has the happy faculty of gathering. The new venture IS wished long and prosperous career.
 Mr.T. NJ. Fdmunds and Miss Nettie Prince, both of Tucson, were married last night at 9:l5, at the residence of the brides parents, Rev. F. W. Downs oihclstlng. \ pleasant company of in- innate friends were present and the oc- easlon Was a very enjoyable one.
 Foreman W. T. Day, of the Vekol. has located R northwestern extension of the Nokol mine and has found a splendid body Of rich ore by sinking 8 shaft. The excitement is very high over the recent discoveries m that camp and the whole country Is being monumented.
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